Explosion news, articles and information:

6/1/2015 - It is estimated that at least 130 storage containers holding radioactive waste at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in Japan are now leaking, according to new reports. The result is a continuous hydrogen gas buildup that nuclear experts say could one day trigger a cascade of devastating...

1/11/2015 - A pair of explosions that occurred almost back-to-back over the course of a week in Idaho has left local residents and officials baffled. The latest in a growing series of mysterious boom events around the world with no apparent explanation, the explosions are being speculated by some as result of covert...

11/6/2014 - Few Americans want to contemplate what a nuclear attack on the country might look like: the damage, the carnage (death in the hundreds of thousands, depending upon where the weapon was detonated) and decades of being unable to re-inhabit Ground Zero.
But because such incidents would be so horrific,...

9/2/2014 - It is still a mystery why a 55-gallon drum containing nuclear waste exploded in mid-February at the government's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. But new reports indicate that, following the explosion, a large mass of what witnesses say looked like a cloud of whipped cream traveled...

7/10/2014 - Nearly five months later, scientists still do not know what caused the Valentine's Day explosion of a barrel of nuclear waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
WIPP was intended to be the only permanent storage facility for materials contaminated as part of the nation's...

5/29/2014 - The decision by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a government-run nuclear testing facility in New Mexico, to go "green" with a new radiation absorption material may have caused an explosion that occurred several months ago at a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) storage facility. The Santa Fe New...